This is the Yahoo! t-shirt I wore today: Building F In 2003, Yahoo got too big for its 4 big main campus buildings and started acquiring other real estate. The first buildings were two new ones right across the street. There was much consternation about being moved away from everyone else, even if it only …
This is the Yahoo! t-shirt I wore today: Tech Made Easy This is the official shirt of the Yahoo! Tech launch. It certainly gets right to the point, doesn’t it? Acquired: 6/2006 Rating: 3.5/5
Well, it appears that I’m a few short of the 21 Yahoo t-shirts needed to wear a different one every workday in June. I’m nine short to be exact. So if anyone reading this has some hanging around that I haven’t worn already, let me know so I can continue my quest. Medium or Large …
This is the Yahoo! t-shirt I wore today: Kevin Sites in the Hotzone Call it more bad counting in the marketing department, but were plenty of these to be had. Kevin Sites in the Hotzone was Yahoo! News’ first foray into original content and has been successful at telling interesting stories. The site was launched …
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This is the Yahoo! t-shirt I wore today: Yahoo! Tech TagCloud This is the exclusive Tech Team shirt with a bunch of silly phrases that kept saying over and over again during development of the site. The tag cloud models the navigation you see at the top of the tech.yahoo.com pages. I will probably quickly …
This is the Yahoo! t-shirt I wore today: PHP Retro I believe we got these at a quarterly all-hands meeting last year sometime. The back has a mirror image of the Yahoo! logo, but with some PHP code behind it which is not mirrored. Perhaps PHP is obfuscated enough on its own. The code itself …
This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: Musicmatch Yahoo announced it was acquiring Musicmatch on September 14, 2004. I got this t-shirt way earlier than that, but since they’re now part of Yahoo, it counts. The shirt was part of the gift bag from the WebNoize conference in 1999 where LAUNCHcast was introduced. Acquired: …
This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: Search and Marketplace Reloaded One of the benefits of working at Yahoo is free movie tickets. Whenever a big movie comes out, some group will probably buy out an entire theater and give out the tickets. The most recent one was Mission Impossible III, but back in …
This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: I’m a Yahoo Tech Monkey The Yahoo! Marketing Department does a lot of Amazing stuff, but counting does not seem to be their forte. Whenever we do some kind of promotion, there’s way more t-shirts left than were needed. But I appreciate it when there’s cool t-shirts …
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This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: LAUNCH This is an “acquired company” shirt which I got at some point when I worked down there. We affectionately referred to the logo on the front as the “rat”. It it actually a reversed sound wave of someone saying “LAUNCH”. Acquired: 2000? Rating: 3.5/5